History

The country’s most important archaeological find has been compared to Machu Picchu. Here’s how to see it At first glance, it doesn’t look like much, just a rectangular meadow in…

Madrid (10/03 – 21.43) Exorcism is a key source of income for Sabohiddin Shodiev, a popular cleric in his rural community on the outskirts of Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan.…

The UNESCO General Conference has passed a resolution on the list of eminent personalities and historical events commemorated, including the 300th anniversary of the birth of talented Vietnamese medical herbalist Hải Thượng…

Veteran Nguyen Van Thien never expected that his lost war diary in 1967 would find its way back home after more than half a century. For Thien, the official visit…

Pastor Y Hin Nie, 75, preaches the gospel from the comfort of his church in the US state of North Carolina. But as a young man he survived nearly two…

A 2,000 year old fresco depicting what might be an ancient ancestor of the Italian pizza has been found in the ruins of the city of Pompeii, Italy’s Culture Ministry said on Tuesday.    Archaeologists assume…

When a then 20-something Patricia Little-Upah arrived at the 93rd Evacuation Hospital not far from present day Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, things were fairly quiet. “It wasn’t like…

Stretching 1,782 kilometers (1,107 miles) – about nine times the length of the Suez Canal, China’s Grand Canal is the world’s longest human-made river. Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site…

‘As long as his name is spoken, he’ll never be forgotten,’ said Ed Preston, head of the Pennsylvania Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. David Ortals has been gone a long time,…

Jan C. Scruggs’ calling revealed itself years after he left Vietnam. The story of what led him to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in the nation’s capital begins with a…